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Article Dashboard Security Flaw

stormbreaker

There is an ongoing discussion on the SEO Philippines forum regarding the security flaw in Article Dashboard script. To those who don’t know what this script does, it is a free article directory script where users can submit their articles and get a free promotion and instant backlink to their sites. This script, however, is encoded with IonCube which makes it difficult to customize and modify. I don’t participate with the ongoing discussion even though I’m have sites powered by that script. It was until a fellow webmaster sent a message to me with a screenshot of my website showing the admin panel which he was able to pass through. I was really surprised, how can someone other than me without using a password get through the admin control panel? That friend however, just did that to warn us Article Dashboard users that our sites are not that secured like it meant to be. As of the moment, other security measures have been applied as I’m waiting for the next updated release of the Article Dashboard (AD) script. Are you an AD owner too? Be warned!